7pm

Motherwell Manager Shocker - Part 2

Although Eric Black is confirmed as being on the shortlist for the vacant manager's position, we can exclusively reveal one name that did NOT make the final cut.  Yes, it is my sad duty to inform you that our new manager will NOT be James Reid.

As you can see from the following letter, my application for the post was rejected and I didn't even make it to the interview stage of the selection process.  Mr Nevin was obviously unimpressed by my Championship Manager experience and my fine record in charge of the Unofficial Motherwell Homepage 11-aside team.  Or perhaps it was my demand that Ricky be installed as my No 2 that went against me.

As you can see, Pat went on to repeat his request that I give up ownership of the domain name www.motherwellfc.org.  Sadly, I am not in a position to do this at the moment, although if the club are willing to offer me £1000 in cash and a free season ticket for life then I might reconsider.

Motherwell's weekly press conference was held today at Fir Park.  Details are available from the Official Site.

Pat Nevin today confirmed that Eric Black was one of the candidates on his shortlist, along with John Philliben and Miodrag Krivokapic.  He said:
"We're getting a bit closer to making a final decision and hopefully that will be next week.  The board have been all over the place really and have been in different places and we just hope we can do it when the time is right and get back to them with new information.  One or two names have been taken out what I originally said was the five and the list has closed down a bit. Some didn't meet the criteria.  People have mentioned a lot of names and I can confirm that we have talked to Eric Black and we will continue to talk to him. There are three others.  We're getting closer and we've talked to them individually now and we'll be getting the board together as soon as that's possible."

2.15pm

Motherwell Manager Shocker - Part 1

Check out the following story from Football365.  Looks as though we can score Mr Burns off the shortlist!

High level entertainment at Celtic Park on Wednesday night, and not just from the Scottish champions' win over Rosenborg. 

Uefa's official website provides rather impressive live audio commentary on a selection of Champions League games but the boys on duty in Glasgow - one Jim Spence and ex-Hoops manager Tommy Burns - clearly didn't know where the microphone's off switch was. 

Pre-game highlights from Spence and Burns included: 
"I've got a bit of KitKat if you want some of that..." 

And a series of curious clunk-clunk-rattle background noises that had the more childish elements of the 365 office imaging they might be 'at it' even before Spence chimed in with: "You don't have to be double-jointed but it helps, eh?" 

But the juiciest pieces of ear-wigging came at half time when Burns loudly told all and sundry just how little money was being put on the table for him as the potential new gaffer at Motherwell and how he'd told "Pat", presumably 'Well chief Pat Nevin, that he might as well forget it.

Thanks to Davie Gunn for sending this story in.

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